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Replication Data for: Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulation |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/HOT20S |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2022-08-30 |
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Kolcava, Dennis, 2022, "Replication Data for: Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HOT20S, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Replication Data for: Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulation |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/HOT20S |
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Authoring Entity: |
Kolcava, Dennis (ETH Zürich) |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Kolcava, Dennis |
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Depositor: |
Kolcava, Dennis |
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Date of Deposit: |
2022-08-18 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HOT20S |
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Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Environmental Politics, Regulation, Survey Experiment |
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Abstract: |
These files replicate the analysis in Kolcava, D (forthcoming), Greenwashing and Public Demand for Government Regulation, Journal of Public Policy Environmental governance in many high-income democracies relies to some extent on self-regulation by the private sector. Yet, this policy mode is contested and proponents of top-down government regulation argue that voluntary corporate sustainability commitments remain shallow and rarely are more than greenwashing. I assess to what extent firms’ business conduct is subject to societal checks and balances, in particular, whether public support for regulation constitutes a control mechanism of corporate contributions to environmental goods. I rely on an original survey experiment (N=2112) conducted with a representative sample of the Swiss voting population. The analysis shows that accusing firms of greenwashing reduces both citizens’ perceived effectiveness of self-regulation and perceived synergy of corporate profits and environmental protection. However, this attitudinal shift only translates into modest updates in respondents’ policy preference formation. As a result, short-run shifts in public support for regulation are an unlikely societal control mechanism of business conduct. |
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replication_files.7z |
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application/x-7z-compressed |